Brian Fay
Solo Shows, Group Exhibitions and Curatorial work
Solo Shows
2023 The Most Recent Forever, A touring survey show, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre,
Cork, Ireland
2022-23 The Most Recent Forever, A touring survey show, Highlanes Municipal Gallery,
Drogheda and Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2021 A mobile living thing, DLR Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018 To something that went before (C.S.deK), Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2016 X (IR), nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Of the Survival of Images (and Objects), nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2011 Broken Images or When does Posterity Begin?, Ashford Gallery,
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Some Time Now 1 -3, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland, Mermaid Arts Centre,
Wicklow, Ireland, Solstice Arts Centre,Navan, Ireland
2005 Web, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Encoded, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Encoded, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland, Winner of the Sound and Vision Award,
Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland and the Context Galleries
2004 Encoded, Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
2000 Morse, Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1998 Still, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
Group Shows
2024 Stories of Art: Selected works from the UCC Art Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Invited artist Visual Presence, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland
2023. Invited artist 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Invited artist Connections, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland
J+1 Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin, Germany
TRAce, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2022 Drawing Room, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2021 Second Summer, The Dock, Leitrim, Ireland
Treee, Online exhibition, Commonage Projects, London, England
National Collection of Contemporary Drawing 30 Years, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2019 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Drawing Out, Damer House Gallery, Tipperary, Ireland
2018 After an Act, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Concerning the Other, Queen Street Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Akroma, National Museum Arsenals Riga, Latvia
2017 Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
The Space Between, Selection from The OPW and Northern Ireland Collection, Oriel Gallery, The Pearse Museum Dublin, Parliament Buildings, Stormont Estate, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Vue Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin
Open Studio: A Conversation on Drawing, RHA Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Conversations at the Casino, Casino Marino, Dublin, Ireland
Portraits of a Nation, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Drawings: National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.
Paper Table Wall and After, Gallery North, Newcastle, England
Finders and Keepers: An exhibition of artworks from the State Art Collection, Municipal Gallery,
DLR Lexicon, Dublin, Ireland
Construct, Luan Gallery, Westmeath, Ireland
2014 Pull Bite Rally, National College of Art and Design Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Derwent Art Prize, Mall Gallery, London, England
Palimpsest II, The Pearse Museum, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Region Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
The Palimpsest Project, Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia.
Re/TURN, Studio show, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
nag offsite, Private House, WickIow, Ireland.
2012 Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Projet Gutenberg, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France
Launch, nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2011 The 43 Uses of Drawing, Rugby Art Museum, England
Pencil to the Plough, Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Fine Lines: a selection from the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing,
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Essomenia, The Tea Rooms, Dublin, Ireland
Outside the Lines Contemporary Drawing Practices, The Town Hall Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
New Directions in Drawing symposium and exhibition, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Touchstone, Salisbury Art Museum, Salisbury, England
Ventral Surface, Oliver Holt Gallery, Dorset, England
2009/10 Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Ireland, Civic Arts Centre in Hengelo, Holland,
Irish Cultural Institute Paris , France and Millennium Arts Centre Northern Ireland
2008 Other Mens Flowers, Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Ireland
Drawing Stonehenge, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Ábhar agus Meon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Without the Walls, University of Northampton Gallery, England
Recent Acquistions, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Fokatronica, The Sugar Club, Dublin, Ireland
2007 (C)Artography,Map Making as Artform, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Flatfiling, ArtNews Projects, Berlin, Germany
Still Moving, Siamsa Tire, Kerry Film Festival, Kerry, Ireland
2006 The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Flatfiles Drawings, Pierogi Gallery, New York, USA
Seconds: The Imperfect Artwork, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
2005 All Yesterdays Parties, Multimedia event, Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Drawing the Line, Orleans House Gallery, London, England
COE 04, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Mayo, Ireland
2003 Perspective 03, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Haunted, Civil Arts Inquiry, City Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Recontres Internationales, Podweil Contemporary Art Centre, Berlin, Germany
On Main Street, Laois Arts Festival, Laois, Ireland
Curation
2017 Surveyor: Solstice Visual Arts Award, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Meath, Ireland
2016 Some thing as a line, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2011 Imaging Madness, Mieke Bal, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Lost and Found, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
2007 Milestones, (with Andrew Folan) Black Church Print Studio, OPW Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Pleasures and Days (with Sheena Barrett), Group Show, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland
